Sugar-cane loader.



' Patented Dec. 24, i901.

v No. 689,42l.

A. H. SCHIERHOLZ.

SUGAR GANE LOADER.

(Application Sled Feb. 20, 1901.)

2 Sheets-Sheet l.

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' No. 689,421. P'atentd nec. 24, |901.

A. H. soHmnHoLz.

SUGAR CANE LOADER.

(Application led Feb. 20, 1901.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

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UMTED STATES PATENT Fries.

AUGUST H. SCHIERHOLZ, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO RISD-ON IRON AND LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFOR- NIA, ACORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

SUGAR-CANE LOADER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,421, dated December 24, 1901. Application filed February 20, 1901. Serial No. 48,075. @To model.)

To @ZZ whom, it muy concern:

Beit known that LAUGUsT H. SCHIERHOLZ, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, in the State rof California, have invented certain new and useful Sugar-Cane Loaders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description of the same.

The present invention is designed to facilixo tate the loading of the sugar-cane into cars or vehicles of transportation and to reduce to a minimum the cost of handling the sugarcane; and the object of the invention is to produce a compact, comparatively light, and

I5 inexpensive machine for the purpose of depositing the sugar-cane onto the car or vehicle of transportation.

In order to understand the invention, reference should be had to the accompanying sheet 2o of drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side View in elevation of the apparatus, partly broken away, illustrating the same in posit-ion for loading of cane into a car. Fig. 2 is a front view of the loader.

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional View of the carrier and frame, faken on line a: ou, Fig. 2.

In the drawings the elevator-ladder is illustrated as being composed of lthe side pieces 1 2 and a supporting-bottom 3. This ladder 3o is rigidly scoured to a frame consisting of the uprights 4 and sills 5. The ladder is arranged at a suitable inclination and attached to the uprights et and sills 5. By preference the frame is supported by rollers 6, so as 'to be capable of being readily moved from place to place. In bearings 7, at the upper end of the ladder, Works the cross-shaft 8, to which shaft the chain-wheels 9 9 are attached. To the lower end of the ladder are secured the ad- 4o justable bearing-boxes 10,within which works the cross-shaft 11. To this shaft chain-wheels 12 13 are secured, which wheels are arranged in line, respectively, with chain-wheels 9 9. Over the chain-wheels 9 12 works the endless chain 14, and over chain-wheels 9/ 13 works the endless chain 15. These chains 14 15 constitute the endless carrier, the same being united by cross-rods 16. Said cross-rods are arranged at equidistance apart throughout 5o the length of the endless chains, and to each Vrier the same is supported oy means of the bottom 3. To support the underrun of the endless carrier and prevent sagging thereof during travel from the upper chain-wheels to the lower ones, supporting-tracks 18 19 are 6o provided. These supporting-tracks are suspended from side pieces 1 2, respectively, by means of the hangers 2021, depending therefrom. On these supporting-tracks rest the endless chains 14: 15. 65

In order to protect the chains of the endless carrier free of the sugar-cane While being elevated, the housings 22 23 are secured to the side pieces 1 2 of the ladder.

To the cross-shaft 8 is fastened the pulley- 7o wheel 24, which is driven from pulley-wheel 25 by means of the belt 26, which belt works over said pulley-Wheels. The pulley-wheel V25 is secured to shaft 27, which Works in bearing-boxes secured to the cross-pieces 2S of the 75 ladder-frame. To this shaft is also fastened the gear 29, which gear meshes with pinion 30, att-ached to cross-shaft 31. This shaft also 'works in bearings of the cross-pieces 28 and in addition to the intermeshing pinion 30 car- 8o ries a belt-wheel 32. By means of a belt (not shown) the belt-wheel is driven by any suitable source of power.

At the lower end of the ladder is supported the receiving-table 33. Onto this table the sugar-cane to be deposited into the car 34C is delivered. The sugar-cane placed upon the recei ving-table is fed onto the endless carrier, by which it is elevated and discharged into the car 34. The sugar-cane is prevented 9o from slipping backward during the movement of the endless carrier by the fingers or iin gerplates projecting from the carrier.

The slide or adjustable bearing-boxes l0 are moved up and down, so as to regulate the tension of the endless carrier by means of the tension-regulating device 35.

In order to provide against any of the sugar-cane which may slip from the carrier falling onto the belt 26, the housing 23 is proloo vided with an extension 36. This extension projects beyond the side piece 1 and covers the drive-belt. This protection is necessary, else the sugar-cane would be liable to clog the drive-belt.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be protected by Letters Patent, is-

A portable sugar-*cane loader comprising conveying instrumentalities, a frame structure carried thereby, an inclined ladder rigidly secured to said frame structure, a feedtable at the foot of said ladder, driving devices mounted on said frame structure, a belt 26 between said driving devices and the upper end of said carrier located at one side thereof, a continuous supporting-bottorn 3 for csefizi AUGUST H. SCHIERHOLZ.

Witnesses:

N. A. ACKER, D. B. RICHARDS. 

